On May 11, 10:01 pm, wren <[email protected]> wrote: > Travelled across the country today by car. My Pismo was knocked off a > table by a cat. It fell, cover first, and landed with a horrible smack > on hard wood floors. It boots, but 70 percent or more of the screen > looks like stained glass. Does this need a new screen? If yes, where > do I get one pronto - how much - how do I replace it?
Probably the cheapest, quickest, easiest thing to do, short of buying a new laptop, is to check out a resource called "craigslist" on the web, local to every city. Next bet would be eBay. Get a working Pismo, take out your old hard drive, put it in the new Pismo. Should be able to pick up a Pismo for $50 - $100. Take apart manuals are in two step by step guides available at reputable sites on the web, made by the site owners, thereby legally circumventing Apple's ban on public spread of its in-house take-aparts. If you ever do get a new, or newer used laptop, check the specs, especially on the MacBooks, as some no longer come with Firewire ports and as such would make Target Disk Mode transfer of data impossible. You might be able to find a busted Pismo with good screen on eBay. They come up all the time under "Powerbook G3" so be sure to check and match the model numbers. Your off-list offer to replace the screen should cost no more than $100. It's a two hour job and the part isn't worth more than $25 these days. Unless of course the speed of fix is critical, in which case, pay what you will, as you will...;) Run, in Seattle, on gigabyte 70 transferring my music to bits. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
